grief-stricken - Story 57858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Ride a hot air balloon.” The words on the list brought a tight knot to Olivia’s stomach. Her aunt, a free spirit, a woman who embraced life with such infectious joy. Olivia felt a pang of intense regret. She had always been too busy, too practical.

The house was filled with the ghosts of laughter and shared secrets. She looked around at the photographs, the mementos. She decided to do it. She would do everything on the list. She had to, because she couldn’t bear to let her aunt’s spirit, that joyous, vibrant flame, be extinguished completely.

Emotion: grief-stricken

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grief-stricken. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 grief-stricken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grief-stricken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grief-stricken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.396
`泪`	0.338
`😢`	0.332
`haunting`	0.331
`😔`	0.325

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.434
`😎`	-0.330
`B`	-0.303
`🤓`	-0.285
`😎`	-0.276